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The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: $27.28$19.09Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by John Sutherland
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776014Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal by Rachel Greenwald Smith
RRP: $27.28$20.06A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society's tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good-politically, ethically, and artistically. In... -
Triggered Literature: Cancellation, Stealth Censorship and Cultural Warfare by John Sutherland 9781785908170
RRP: $39.88$28.35Amid the flames of the culture wars, politicians have taken up arms over controls on literary culture, spurred on in part by universities 'triggering' canonical texts. Jonathan Swift's 'Battle of the Books' has flared up again. But is 'triggering' utter... -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9780393967944
$29.99"Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Wharton's manuscript outlines,... -
The Great Gatsby (Norton Critical Editions) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $23.08$19.68This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.A full introduction, a note on the text and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including Fitzgerald's... -
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Kyla Schuller
RRP: $50.38$42.86In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility-the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences-to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges... -
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature by Angela Leighton
RRP: $71.30$57.31Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration... -
Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth 9781421421650
RRP: $55.65$47.92In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century-both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it-we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple... -
Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents by Dennis Walder
RRP: $91.33$86.65This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage... -
Last Kiss by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$46.81Last Kiss brings together some of the most interesting and idiosyncratic of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings from throughout his career. Included in this volume are Fitzgerald's Thoughtbook, a revealing adolescent diary; an amusing self-interview, written... -
The Connell Guide to The American Novel 1880-1940 by Stephen Fender
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187578Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $16.78$10.98Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction... -
Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
RRP: $36.73$31.73For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the... -
Critical Studies: The Great Gatsby by Kathleen Parkinson
RRP: $16.78$12.16Kathleen Parkinson places this brilliant and bitter satire on the moral failure of the Jazz Age firmly in the context of Scott Fitzgerald's life and times. She explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of... -
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis by Kasia Boddy
RRP: $20.98$14.93The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including... -
Henry Miller on Writing by Henry Miller 9780811201124
RRP: $27.28$24.07Some of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using words, how the books he read influenced him, and... -
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: $39.88$29.42WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can be no doubting the brilliance - the sheer explanatory... -
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9780393624540
RRP: $27.28$24.07This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzell's eight original illustrations. * A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons. * An abundant selection of contextual material, including... -
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler 9780674945753
RRP: $56.60$44.04In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens's short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological... -
A Catch of Anti-Letters by Thomas Merton
$34.94To learn more about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9781556127120Author Thomas MertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sheed & Ward,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford by Casey Nelson Blake 9780807842966
RRP: $98.60$96.05The ""Young American"" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village ""Little Renaissance"" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and... -
Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop by Anne Stevenson
RRP: $27.28$20.37Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" is a highly illuminating reader's guide written by another leading poet, which makes... -
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
RRP: $42.00$32.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394752099Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: $83.98$59.41The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go... -
You are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson 9781250119889
RRP: $27.28$26.71A new book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson, destined to be a classic part therapy, part best friend, part humor, part coloring book. When Jenny Lawson is anxious, one of the things she does is to draw. Elaborate doodles, beautiful... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: $18.88$13.55The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and... -
Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson by Jeffrey S. Cramer
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093836Author Jeffrey S. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Dr Steven Powell
RRP: $31.48$24.09THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK "As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin "A masterpiece of... -
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $31.48$20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806101Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $35.68$26.63'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first... -
Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 by Andrew Nette
RRP: $69.28$47.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635248Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan
RRP: $88.20$82.76A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including... -
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
RRP: $84.00$62.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Nonfiction) 2013. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780446563130Author Christopher BramFormat... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: $18.88$13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times by Dougald Hine 9781603587419
RRP: $42.00$28.04The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers-Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth-who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time. In a world in which the climate is being altered... -
Sylvia Plath: A Critical Guide by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $27.28$17.98Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. Tim Kendall seeks to redress the balance in his detailed and... -
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
RRP: $58.70$46.41"I like a little rebellion now and then"-so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an... -
Duncan Roots and Branches (Paper Only) by R DUNCAN 9780811200349
RRP: $16.78$14.76The poet has said of himself and his work: "I am not an experimentalist or an inventor, but a derivative poet, drawing my art from the resources given by a generation of masters--Stein, Williams, Pound; back of that by the generations of poets that have...